We use Weine, which you know is based on Dewey, but in Dewey half the books
would have the number 296! If you want to see our catalog, it’s :
wise.library.site.
That’s the url. I know that in the past librarians have told me that they use
our catalog as a source for their records.
I think it’s a good idea to take a class in making a MARC (catalog) record.
Our-collection is about 22k items. I would add that I think familiarity with
Judaica is actually more important than knowing cataloging. You can learn to
catalog in short order.
Andrea Rapp
Wise Temple, Cincinnati
> On May 24, 2025, at 9:53 AM, Dorothy Hamilton via Hasafran
> <hasafran@lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
> Greetings everyone!
>
> I’m new here and new to Judaic librarianship. I’m a full time public
> librarian that has taken a part time job in a Jewish college here in Florida.
> I’ve been tasked with cataloging their entire library along with the late
> head Rabbi’s collection. The thing is though I have a MLIS I didn’t take any
> cataloging classes. When I was hired I told them that I would have to learn
> on the job.
>
> So, to classify everything I started using Dewey. I came across the many
> limits of the DDC. After research I came across the Elazar and Weine
> schemes. I decided to go with Elazar. But Elazar doesn’t include cutter
> numbers. I decided to use cutter numbers because that made more sense that
> alphabetize them once they are assigned the number. Also, I don’t know how
> to classify the Tanya books.
>
> Why I’m here is that I’m looking for libraries that use Elazar and would
> their librarians be willing to answer any questions I have about the
> classification?
>
> Regards
>
> Dorothy Hamilton
>
> PS
> I don’t know if it matters but I’m not Jewish.
>
>
>
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